Chunavana app to help voters with election info

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The Chunavana Android App is developed by the CEO of Karnataka after assessing the need of the public through a specialized KAP Survey is available for the public download now in the Google Play Store.

The survey report revealed that out of the people who did not vote 25% was because they were not aware of their polling stations, 17.5 % of the urban voters did not vote because of long queue and avoided standing in the queue and 7.5 % of the urban voters did not vote because they are unaware of their candidates and the constituencies.

The Chunavana Android App will ease the difficulty of finding the citizens’ polling station and assembly constituency by just a click of the button. The citizen can navigate to the polling station with ease and avoid traffic on the day of poll and reach the polling station. The citizens can now see the candidates contesting in their constituency and their details to get an introduction about who is going to serve them for the next five years.

The app can not only be used during the time of elections but also during the time of addition of names into the electoral roll for new voters and during the time of distress to reach the nearest police stations and the health centers. The contacts of the officials will help the citizen to ensure transparent and effective electioneering and MCC.

Dash Board: The Karnataka Election Information System is a GIS based web portal which is a one stop information portal for elections in Karnataka. The portal contains all the information about the polling stations and assemblies, their boundaries and facilities available in the polling stations. The population details, elector details, trends in previous elections, candidates, winning margins and comparisons were provided for the citizen to understand the democracy in play.

This information is shared by the Election Commission and published as is under our Message Forward section.

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